The only Google software that I have on my Mac is Chrome browser. When I trying to find out why my cron job doesn’t work (just to be clear, it has nothing to do with what I described in this article) a couple of days ago, I came across tons of quite verbose logs generated by a background daemon called GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent on my MacBook Pro’s system.log. Google Keystone (Google’s codename for its Google Software Update) has “mutated” since I published this article, be sure you read the “Update on July 2019” below. Google Software Update is not a malware, but it behaves like a one. I never know there is a software called Google Software Update that is installed in my Mac without my knowledge and sending data back to google more frequent than it is necessary until a couple of days ago.
